[rt.cpan.org #55660] [PATCH] Partial win64 support for Win32::API

Wed Jun 06 21:21:02 2012: Request 55660 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by bulk88.
       Queue: Win32-API
     Subject: [PATCH] Partial win64 support for Win32::API
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       Owner: COSIMO
  Requestors: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
      Status: open
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55660 >


On Wed Mar 17 10:09:53 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> The attached three patches (against Win32-API-0.59) implement initial
>    support for 64-bit Windows in Win32-API.
> 
> I didn't attempt to
>    port Win32::API::Callback. It looks like considerably more effort
>    than Win32::API itself, and as our application doesn't need it I
>    couldn't justify the paid time to spend on it. This is, however,
>    sufficient for Win32::API tests to pass against a 64-bit ActivePerl
>    5.8.9.
> 
> At present, only MSVC++ toolchains will work, as its
>    assembly dialect is different from GNU. I don't have a gcc-based
>    build of Perl to work with to port it, but it should only require a
>    straightforward translation of call_asm_x64_msvc.asm into
>    call_asm_x64_gnu.asm.
> 
> The required changes to Makefile.PL are
>    also somewhat hackish, purely because I don't know of a better way
>    to detect what architecture we're targeting.
> 
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Your (IDK if you will get this from CPAN's web interface) asm is broken.
RSI register is non-volatile.
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77677